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Painted lady butterflies discovered in French Guiana — thousands of miles from their usual habitats — got there through a Herculean transoceanic flight.

Sharks in the Gulf of Mexico are learning to associate boat engines with food, leading to more and more cases of depredation, experts say.

Scientists perform necropsy on an ancient wolf pulled from Russian permafrost that may still have prey in its stomach.

A study in humans and lab animals suggests that an antimalarial drug might treat the root cause of PCOS symptoms.

Excessive brain growth in the womb has been directly tied to autism in toddlers in new research involving lab-grown "minibrains."

A combination of cultured cells and silicone could help robots appear more human in future thanks to realistic skin elasticity. And they can smile like us too.

Solar energy breakthrough sees scientists stabilize perovskite crystals for use in future solar panels, promising more efficient and sustainable green technology.

Shortly after 4 p.m. ET, the mountain-size asteroid 2011 UL21 will come within 5 million miles of Earth, making it one of the largest space rocks to come that close to our planet for 125 years. Here's how to watch the close encounter live, or see it with a telescope.

Archaeologists used X-rays to analyze the remains of a sandal unearthed near a Roman fort in Bavaria.